Train passenger describes being stabbed as ‘like an electric shock’

A train passenger wounded in a mass stabbing on a service between Doncaster and London told police his first knife wound was like “an electric shock”, a court has heard.

Video evidence from Jonathan Gjoshe was played to a jury at Cambridge Crown Court on Wednesday, where Anthony Williams is on trial for 14 counts of attempted murder.

Mr Gjoshe said that when he first saw Williams, dressed all in black, in coach J of the LNER service from Doncaster to London on November 1 last year, he thought he was someone he knew.

“I’ve made eye contact with him…he’s pulled a knife, but I just think it was the way he’s poked me, the way he’s stabbed me, it was a bit weird because it was slow.

“It was not rapid,” he told police in the video recorded interview.

He said Williams did not make eye contact with him as he struck, staring instead at his shoulder.

“When I first saw the knife that’s when I screamed and my phone’s gone flying,” Mr Gjoshe said.

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“The first poke was like an electric shock, then the adrenalin kicked in.”

He could not remember how he sustained five other knife wounds, one of which he told police was 5mm from a nerve, with the first wound near a bone.

Mr Gjoshe’s account is the first from passengers who were on the train to be heard by the jury.

Williams, 33, denies attempting to murder 10 people on an LNER train that was stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on November 1 last year.

He also denies the attempted murders of three people in Peterborough on October 31, and of a 17-year-old boy at Pontoon Dock DLR station in London in the early hours of November 1.

Judge Mr Justice Calver earlier told jurors at Cambridge Crown Court that whether Williams carried out the attacks is not in question, but they must consider whether he intended to kill those individuals when he carried out the attacks.